Matthew Perry reveals his fictitious expenses to recover from addiction and struggles with drugs
Actor Matthew Perry has revealed the exorbitant cost of his addiction recovery journey, as the 53-year-old Friends star explained how much he spent to get addiction help, while speaking with The New York Times, while he was promoting For his upcoming memoir Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing, the actor said, "I probably spent $9 million trying to be sober," and also noted that he recently celebrated 18 months of recovery.
Perry has a net worth of $120 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. The actor made $22,500 per episode in the first season of Friends, with his salary rising to $1 million per episode in the last two seasons (nine and ten).
Matthew Perry revealed that he almost died of opium addiction, which led to the explosion of his colon, and in his private memoirs, Matthew said that during the previous period of his life he faced problems due to his drug addiction, and explained the negative addiction impact on his life and his distance from the artistic community and his friends.
Perry explained that he suffered a perforation in his digestive system, spent two weeks in a coma and 5 months in the hospital, and had to use a colon bag for 9 months to treat the health crisis, and added: “The doctors told my family that my 2% chance of survival was placed under the extracorporeal oxygen device that performs With the breathing tasks of the heart and lung, which is the last stage of the patient before death,” Berry said that he had overcome his health crisis and had not taken drugs for a while.
